Living Classics
Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English
Edited by S. J. Harrison
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Return of Classics, Stephen Harrison
Poets and Practice
1. Horace on Teesside, Maureen Almond
2. Jumping Their Bones: Translating, Transgressing and Creating, Josephine Balmer
3. Reconnecting with the Classics, Robert Crawford
4. Catullus in the Playground, Anna Jackson
5. Lapsed Classicist, Michael Longley
Poets in the Theatre
6. Weeping for Hecuba, Tony Harrison
7. Title Deeds - Translating a Classic, Seamus Heaney
Scholars on Poets
8. The Argippaei (Herodotus 4.23) in Belfast, Maureen Alden
9. Michael Longley Appropriates Latin Poetry, Brian Arkins
10. The Homeric Convergences and Divergences of Seamus Heaney and Michael Longley, Oliver Taplin
11. Is 'the frail silken line' Worth More than 'a fart in a bearskin'? or, How Translation Practice Matters in Poetry and Drama, Lorna Hardwick
12. The figure of Electra in Sylvia Plath's poetry: A Case of Identification, Anastasia Bakogianni
13. The Autobiography of the Western Subject: Carson's Geryon, Edith Hall
14. 'Purple Shining Lilies' : Imagining the Aeneid in Contemporary Poetry, Rowena Fowler
15. Shades of Rome in the Poetry of Derek Walcott, Emily Greenwood
16. 'We'll all be Penelopes then': Art and Domesticity in American Women's Poetry, 1958-96, Isobel Hurst
17. Catullus in New Zealand: Baxter and Stead, Stephen Harrison
